Latest news: Statement by Minister Fatih Dönmez on electricity and natural gas cuts



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Dönmez, in his joint press release with Interior Ministry Spokesperson and Vice Minister İsmail Çataklı after the earthquake at the 112 emergency call center in İzmir, stated that search and rescue activities continue with great sensitivity and coordination teams from AFAD continue their work through the representatives of all the institutions in the 112 emergency call center of İzmir said.

Dönmez said that as a ministry they traveled to the region to identify and examine the damage to energy infrastructures and promptly instruct the measures to be taken, and that all relevant ministers followed the incident in all aspects.

Dönmez affirmed that there were power cuts and natural gas in the region from the moment of the earthquake, “at the time of the incident the electricity of 74,500 subscribers was cut off. But we accelerated our work in the last hour. In coordination with the teams of the AFAD, began to supply power quickly. As of now, the electricity of 17,824 subscribers has been cut. They will also be delivered quickly. ” I speak.

Noting that there is a natural gas outage in the Bayraklı district, Dönmez said: “I can say that approximately 3,000 subscribers were cut off in this region. These will be quickly completed in parallel with the works there in the next few hours.” . used expressions.

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Dönmez emphasized that İzmir is also an important industrial city and continued as follows:

“Especially for our industry, we have serious facilities that process and store oil in this region. We have natural gas gasification and storage units. One of them is mobile, the other is onshore. No problem. Two of our large refineries are also. They are actively working in this region. We did not find a serious problem. They are doing the necessary controls. There is no problem of security of supply in terms of energy. I wish great success again. I wish mercy to the dead, urgent recovery to the injured and patience to all his relatives. ”

3 THOUSAND 52 STAFF IN THE REGION

Interior Ministry spokesman and deputy minister İsmail Çataklı said there have been 225 aftershocks, 24 of which are more than 4, since the main earthquake, and that after the earthquake, search and rescue teams from Izmir and the provinces surrounding areas began to be sent to the region.

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Stating that 3,52 people are currently working in this context, Çataklı said: “Among them are the gendarmerie, the search and rescue police, UMKE, 112, the firefighters, the municipal teams, the teams of our non-governmental organizations. There are also teams from the municipalities, IHAHA and AKUT. 7 planes of the Armed Forces work to transport them, especially those that come from outside the province. ”

Çataklı stated that the bodies of 20 citizens have been hit and 703 injured as of now, “24 of them are serious, 15 are in the intensive care unit and 9 are currently undergoing surgery.” said.

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